Greetings Preschool Families,
We had a great week here in Preschool despite our tiny class sizes! Hoping that everyone is feeling better very soon.
Our theme this week in class was "Animals in Winter." Mrs. Kidder, our school librarian, showed us a neat video of a hibernating bear and we read alot about what animals around us here in New England do in the wintertime (including a quick shout out to Groundhog Day, including a Groundhog puppet visitor). Students got to make their own "Animals in Winter" pictures that we made into a book and for our Art Project on Thursday we used cardboard stamps and black paint to make bear and bird tracks! (Perhaps this will explain that painty black creation in your preschooler's folder). We then made our OWN tracks by tracing our shoe prints onto a long piece of white paper and writing our names underneath!
For Group Time, kids got to work on Math skills by sorting pattern blocks by shape and color, and for Literacy we worked on identifying the letters in our names and recognizing letters of the alphabet (and even their sounds!) with colorful flashcards.
We've also been playing "Syllable Duck-Duck Goose" in the gym, which is really fun. Kids are shown a picture, we say the word and clap it out as a class, and then the tagger splits the word into syllables as they tap kids heads. (Ie. el-e-phant) And then...let the running ensue!
It's been really nice to see the preschoolers starting to play together more on the playground, shoveling away with their mini snow shovels. Sounds like they'll get an opportunity for more shoveling after this weekend!
See you all Monday!
-Miss Kate and Miss Amanda
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